Newshosting vs Eweka: Same Omicron Spool, Different Deal
This one comes up constantly, and the answer surprises people: Newshosting and Eweka are the same archive. Both are front-ends on the Omicron backbone — the largest spool in Usenet — so the articles you can retrieve are effectively identical. Neither has “better retention” than the other, because there is only one retention figure underneath. So the real question is narrower: which front-end do you buy on Omicron? Where they genuinely differ The specs above tell the story. The headline gap is connections: Newshosting gives up to 100, Eweka caps around 20. On UK gigabit fibre, that is the difference between saturating your line and watching it idle on a quarter of it. ...